Sutton v. Sutton

The opinion of the court was delivered V

Mr. Justice McGowan.

This was a proceeding to partition real estate among the heirs of Jane Sutton under the following circumstances, as well as we can gather them from the argument and “Brief” in manuscript. It seems that originally the land belonged to Jonathan L. Sutton and his mother, Mary, as tenants in common. On March 8, 1867, a judgment was entered against both Jonathan L. and his mother, Mary, by one Youngblood, as executor of Gillespie, for $978.34, besides interest and costs. This judgment, of course, was a lien upon the whole land, the…